Shelley Carroll is back as councillor for Ward 17 Don Valley North, and her priorities include increasing public safety, investing in community spaces, businesses and jobs, managing road construction and traffic and keeping property taxes at the inflation rate. 

Shelley Carroll is back as councillor for Ward 17 Don Valley North, and her priorities include increasing public safety, investing in community spaces, businesses and jobs, managing road construction and traffic and keeping property taxes at the inflation rate. 

Coun. Carroll won the councillor seat with 62.02% of the vote and will begin her seventh term on Nov. 15. She’s been on city council since 2003, first as councillor for the former Ward 33 and as councillor for Ward 17 since 2018. In this year’s race, Sabrina Zuniga came in second with 13.45% and Jeffery Adamson in third with 7.54%.

The Green Line reached out to Carroll to learn more about her priorities for the next four years.

“My first priority is to get to work with my colleagues on Council and find common ground on the issues that matter most to Torontonians. Just as importantly, I’ll be back on the ground in Don Valley North, meeting with residents, listening to their concerns and making sure their voices are heard at City Hall,” Carroll said in an email to The Green Line.

Here’s a list of issues she says she’ll work on in this next term:

• Affordable property taxes: Carroll said she’ll work to “keep property tax increases in line with inflation, find efficiencies and deliver value for taxpayers.”

• Public safety: She says she wants to continue Toronto’s police hiring plan, expand neighbourhood policing and advance the Transit Safety Plan.

• Road construction and traffic: Carroll says locally, her priorities include moving forward with the Sheppard Avenue reconstruction and addressing neighbourhood traffic safety concerns.

• Public amenities: Carroll says she will invest in the ward’s parks, libraries and community facilities and ensure residents have a meaningful voice in development proposals affecting their neighbourhoods.

• Local businesses and jobs: She says she will also continue working to attract investment, support small businesses and create good jobs. 

Here’s how Carroll responded to election pledges shared by local organizations and advocacy groups:

• Carroll didn’t respond to the Community-led Planning Pledge to fund community-led planning and center community voices. 
• She signed TTC Riders’ pledge to push for more reliable, affordable, accessible, frequent, fast, and safe public transit.
• She committed to four of five promises in Cycle Toronto’s pledge to improve cycling infrastructure in the city.
• She partially committed to some demands raised by Toronto ACORN to give RentSafeTO teeth, stand up to Ontario and tackle heat and affordability. You can check the details here.
• She also signed the Toronto Environmental Alliance’s pledge to commit to voting for a maximum temperature bylaw, plant trees in hot neighbourhoods, cut single-use trash at big events, pause approvals for big AI data centres and cut emissions.

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